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    Genuine Instructions Vs Joking

    Damn... This is not the day when I am at my brightest. That "one conversation" just kept evading me. 😁 About the actual topic (TL;DR -parts bolded): Jokingly trying to telling someone to do stupid or even harmful things is never cool, by my opinion (I don't appreciate April's Fool Day). No...
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    Genuine Instructions Vs Joking

    Ah... Faye's anecdote sounded illogical, but you clarified it: Don't swim in the water filled pool, but play in the empty pool instead. I find it interesting, that I can think a lot of implications and follow-ups to the things (but I can't always figure out their importance, which is the reason...
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    What video game are you currently playing?

    Never mind... Apparently it is not supposed to be a tutorial fight, more like a tutorial about how to choose your fights. Other fight sequences work fine. It is just a common sense thing that kid with no combat training gets his butt kicked. Nice touch, but the game didn't seem to put too much...
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    What video game are you currently playing?

    I just finished Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty DLC. Great game after all, though during first few hours of "gigs" initially gave me a feeling "Wtf, is this piece of (censored) really a game from the people who made Witcher 3?" Especially Phantom Liberty's ending felt just great as it was...
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    Hi everyone, I built an app to find patterns

    I love the idea of such tool as a caregiver. My mother's mind is not getting sharper, and I'm afraid that there will be a day when I have to start dealing with any kind of dementia with my own limited capabilities to recognize other people's (and my own) emotions and the reasons to them. As a...
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    Industry Music, Does it Matter?

    A misunderstanding from my behalf. I read that you were describing, for an example, a stereotypical grunge character with a counter-culture hair-do as a contrast against polished, produced and stylized pop musicians. I meant that if you are giving the credibility based on external factors...
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    Industry Music, Does it Matter?

    My playlist of music has been stuck to songs I liked when I was less than 30 years old. I have been amused to notice that the radio station I used to call "granny radio" had moved to play my kind of music from late-70s, 80s and early-90s (that's still almost 50 years old stuff!). I have grown...
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    Dipping my Toes Into the Pool

    While this causes moral and ethical problems to me, I still have to say that if getting a welfare assistance is the thing because one can't make it on his/hers own, it doesn't matter what diagnosis one has if one just can get it... If getting, for example, a disabling PTSD diagnosis is easier...
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    QoTD #1

    Based on the given example, I think the question was: "What is a casual thing you see from different, opposing angle compared to other people's point of view?" For example, to most people dandelions are just weeds, but they actually have their uses (btw. you can make a soup from them). I can't...
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    Anyone else into game dev?

    Like Outdated, I was interested of understanding how things were made rather than making them myself. At 80s and early 90s, text adventures were very interesting to me and I used a lot of time to plan with paper and pen rooms, objects and their interaction logic to create a workflow how the...
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    Sensory No-Nos

    I'm not sure if finding a cigarette smoke revolting is just an autistic thing 😁... But yes, I didn't like it back in early 90s when it was still everywhere, but I tolerated it. Now it is plain disgusting as it is less common and thus it will stand out as an unusual stench. While I don't taste...
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    Have any of used this website for a while but made no friends here?

    Before you guys (all of you who are worried if you are liked, not just OPs) get to that "no-one likes me"-pit, try to remember that as an autistic people you might have just limited perception. For example, I couldn't even tell if I have made any friends or enemies. It requires something really...
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    How Do You Think?

    There is a condition called aphantasia, where a person is unable to visualize voluntarily (and yes, it is more common among autistic individuals than in the general population). However, involuntary visualization, like dreaming, is still possible. I assume that dreams are separate from the...
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    How Do You Think?

    TL;DR: I want to change my testimony. After testing myself, I realized that I solve puzzles etc. with visual images after all, they are just quick snapshots of situations, not actual visualization of movements or processes. "Unsymbolized thinking" is merely for intermediate steps between...
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    Being asked if you're autistic

    That is the social dance I have never fully understood. I mean that I get that it is polite to say "thank you" to almost everything, and I play along with it just fine. But it is beyond me why it is so important politeness. I have no feelings towards difference between answers "ok" and "thank...
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